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Please visit http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/awards.html for more accurate information about these awards. The awards are not only given to living persons, but also to organizations and publications. (See the sections on Public Service.) The article might be more interesting if you listed some of the winners; for example, Christopher Reeve was a 2003 recipient.
It might be interesting to note that a Lasker Award was given to Alcoholics Anonymous in 1951. The citation reads, in part, as follows:
Alcoholics Anonymous, p.571, 4th ed., 2001, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. — Chidom talk 12:48, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
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I propose the following content which corrects misinformation and restructures the awards so that the most recent are at the top:
The Lasker Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine . They are administered by the Lasker Foundation, founded by advertising pioneer Albert Lasker and his wife Mary Woodward Lasker (later an influential medical research activist). The awards are sometimes referred to as "America's Nobels." Seventy-six Lasker laureates have received the Nobel Prize, including 28 in the last two decades. [1] Maria Freire is the current President of the Foundation.
The four main awards are: [2]
Generally the Lasker Award is given in three categories – Basic Medical Research, Clinical Medical Research, and the Special Achievement Award. Recent winners include the following:
Category:Science and engineering awards Category:Medicine awards Category:Awards established in 1946
I work for Rubenstein Communications and I'd like to update the fourth sentence in the introductory paragraph on behalf of The Lasker Foundation. To mitigate conflict of interest issues, I ask that an editor review the edits and take them live, as they see fit. If no objections are had and no edits are made within three days, I will go ahead and update the entry myself.
Sentence currently says: Eighty-three Lasker laureates have received the Nobel Prize, including 31 in the last two decades.
Sentence should say: Eighty-six Lasker laureates have received the Nobel Prize, including 32 in the last two decades. [1]
NinaSpezz ( talk) 21:32, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
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I have come across references to a Lasker Award made for mental health work. I believe it is formally known as the 'Lasker Award of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene'. An example is Lawrence K. Frank who received the award in 1946. This is an example of historical Lasker Awards that are no longer awarded, see Historical Archive: Awards No Longer Given by the Foundation. I am intending to go through that list and see what can usefully be added to this article (possibly all of it). Carcharoth ( talk) 13:37, 17 October 2019 (UTC)